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and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

because through him we have the access -- we both -- in one Spirit unto the Father.

being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what [is] the will of the Lord,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and [in] the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;

because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.

seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent;

because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,